Cinema and Video

The audiovisual programs are intended to counteract the predominant model of the black cube, even at a time in which both film and video have become fully integrated and dissolved into contemporary art museums. Their aim is to explore the projected image using different formats and discourses: historical series that broaden – and question – the narrations told by the Collection, retrospectives that draw attention to other stories in the audiovisual history and programs that examine the close links that film and video have with contemporary artistic practices. At the same time, this programming seeks to define a space for film and video outside of the usual circuits, describing itineraries distinct from the spectacle and its derivatives.

Results

In February 1992, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía’s Department of Audiovisual Works began organising the Moving Image Biennial ’92: Spanish Visionaries, dedicated solely to the work of Spanish audiovisual artists. The goal of the exhibition is to settle a debt with the artists who have used film, television, video and synthetic images and who have investigated and worked with these languages in Spain, taking a visionary and often daring approach. The intention of the exhibition is to both recover and revitalise video production in the country.